Mason Gaffney wrote: > Smith's statement is so insensitive to the straits of the poor, and so blind to the extravagances of the rich, that I am tempted to wonder if the publisher, Regnery, didn't tamper with it. Maybe some Smith scholar will check earlier editions lacking the tendentious title of "The Conservative Leadership Series". > The quoted passages are the same in the Glasgow edition of TMS. Rather than blind to the extravagances of the rich, I read the quoted part as particularly critical. "their natural selfishness and rapacity," "conveniency," and "gratification of their own vain and insatiable desires" isn't exactly a pat on the head. Sam Bostaph